Exhibitions, Lecture

ARTIST ROOMS: Andy Warhol

19 November 2016 - 16 April 2017
ARTIST ROOMS: Andy Warhol shows the sharp critical opinions of an artist known to many primarily as art salesman, purveyor of product and celebrant of capitalism. Supported by Arts…

Children's Lives in Wartime Japan

1 February - 31 March 2017
This exhibition displays 50 entries from picture diaries made by Japanese primary school children in 1944-1945. It gives a vivid insight into the school lives of Japanese children…

CTIS Seminar: David Orrego-Carmona, "What Do Users Think? Exploring the reception of non-professional subtitling"

14:00 - 15:30 16 February 2017
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

Deanna Petherbridge

2 December 2016 - 4 June 2017
A solo show of pen and ink drawings from across a 45-year career. Since the 1960s, Deanna Petherbridge has pioneered critical thinking on drawing and its place in art and architecture.…

Idris Khan

14 October 2016 - 13 March 2017
British contemporary artist Idris Khan's new solo exhibition. Idris Khan draws inspiration from the history of art, music, philosophy and theology, laying and manipulating images and…

Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael

30 September 2016 - 23 April 2017
This exhibition features the work of one of the radical originators and innovators of the European tradition of printmaking, Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-c. 1534). Marcantonio was…

NEW SCULPTURE

22 October 2016 - 12 June 2017
This exhibition presents a dynamic selection of contemporary sculpture recently acquired by the Whitworth. Spanning the last 25 years, the exhibition offers an eclectic journey through…

Off Beat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground

8 September 2016 - 5 March 2017
Painter, poet, actor and sculptor, a man once described as "the only all-round genius most of us are likely to meet," Jeff Nuttall was one of the few people in the early 1960s to publish…

Revolutionary Textiles 1910-1939

2 January - 23 April 2017
In the early decades of the 20th century textile design took off in new directions throughout the Western world. Invigorated by experimental techniques, art styles such as Fauvism,…

Whitworth Young Contemporaries: And Now We Are Plastic

27 January - 2 April 2017
As technology helps us to constantly evolve, the boundaries between our physical and digital spaces are blending, yet our ability to adapt and change remains visible in our art, marking…

CIDRAL Film Screening and Q&A: Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind: In the Future, they Ate from the Finest Porcelain

12:30 - 14:15 21 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind will be presenting their latest (2016) film In the Future, they Ate from the Finest…

EAC Department Seminar Series: Jennifer Richards (NEWCASTLE), 'Talking Books in the Age of Print'

17:00 - 18:30 22 February 2017
Jennifer Richards (NEWCASTLE), 'Talking Books in the Age of Print'

GDI Lecture Series: Predatory states and Economic development

17:00 - 18:30 22 February 2017
Predatory states and Economic development Professor Mehrdad Vahabi (University of Paris) The event will be from 5-6.30pm in Theatre B of the Roscoe Building The Global Development…

Art History Seminar - Nic Cullinan (National Portrait Gallery)

17:30 - 19:00 23 February 2017
Nic Cullinan, National Portrait Gallery (Whitworth Teaching Suite, 5.30-7pm)

CTIS Seminar: Frank Austermühl, "Don't Mind the Gap: Using Technology to Empower English L2 Translators"

14:00 - 15:30 23 February 2017
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

Legitimacy in international law: The case of international investment arbitration

17:00 - 19:00 28 February 2017
With the different contestation of legitimacy, this lecture will discuss the legitimacy debate with respect to the investment regime. Guest speaker Alexis Galan, Bocconi University,…

Art History Seminar: Olivia Horsfall Turner - "Reading and writing architecture in early modern England"

17:30 - 19:00 1 March 2017
Olivia Horsfall Turner (V&A) Reading and writing architecture in early modern England (Samuel Alexander A.112, 5.30-7pm)

EAC Department Seminar Series: Emily Rohrbach (MANCHESTER), “‘Without you, I would have been somebody else’: On Contingency and the Counterfactual Imagination in Austen and Dickens”

17:00 - 18:30 1 March 2017
Emily Rohrbach (MANCHESTER), “‘Without you, I would have been somebody else’: On Contingency and the Counterfactual Imagination in Austen and Dickens”

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